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JLX. 
TOUR AROUND THE WORLD 

AMONG THE 

TEMPERANCE BROWNIES. 



WITH BLACKBOARD ILLUSTRATIONS. 



MRS. WILBUR F. CRAFTS, 

AUTHOR OF " BLACKBOARD TEMPERANCE LESSONS," NOS. I, 2, 3, ETC. 




NEW YORK: 
The National Temperance Society and Publication House, 

58 READE STREET. 






Copyright, 1896, by 
The National Temperance Society and Publication House. 



PRESS OF 

EDWARD O. JENKINS' SON, 

NEW YORK. 



A Tour Around the World Among the 
Temperance Brownies. 



CHAPTER I. 



THE AMERICAN SOUTHLAND, THE WESTERN PRAIRIES, 
AND CHINA. 

What a funny folk the brownies are ! And you see they 
belong to every tribe and nation, but they are " brownies " 
everywhere, whether they live in China, India, Germany, 
or any other country. Suppose we make a tour of the 
world and visit the brownies. This will be a temperance 
tour, because we are not going to take any wine, beer, or 
any kind of strong drink, no matter 
if we do find it very cheap or even 
given away. Some persons who are 
good temperance folks at home yield 
to temptation when wine is offered 
to them free or very cheap in foreign 
lands. The brownies have a way of 
finding out things ; this is why I want 
that we should take this tour, and 
ask them how the temperance cause 
is getting on. Let us now get into 
our flying machine. In less than a 
minute we have come to the South- 
land, and we will ask this darkey 
brownie how the colored folks are 
getting on with the temperance question. "I dunno, 
massa, but dey mos* all likes to take it ; dey's good for 
temp'rance only part of de time." 




A Southern Brownie. 



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If we had not remembered that all the brownie folk are 
teetotalers we might have thought our black brownie had 
been taking something himself, he looked so gay and 
happy. We asked him if it would not be well to have the 
temperance pledge shown to all of his people. " Yes, massa, 
but not all of 'em knows how to sign their names, and they 
forget so soon when 'lection comes." " Are there no black 
folks for temperance?" "Oh, la! yes, sah, massa, they 
tries mighty hard." "Help them to try," we said, as we 
seated ourselves in our flying machine. 

It does not take long to go from- 
Southland to Prairieland, and that is 
where the Indians live. Let us call 
out the chief of the Indian brownies. 
" White men make good laws ; no 
white man sell Indian ' fire-water,' or 
give fire-water to Indian. Must pay 
$300, and go to jail two years. But 
white man sell Indian fire-water all 
same. Make bad Indian ; Indian get 
drunk, fight, and kill." 

We remembered that we had heard 
a great deal about the terrible deeds 
of " drunken Indians." And we re- 
membered too that there have always 
been good white men in our land who 
have been trying to have liquor kept from the Indians. 
The Indians do not make any of it themselves ; it is all fur- 
nished them by wicked white men, and such poor stuff it 
is and so full of poisons that a great many Indians have 
died because of it. 

Not all Indians are drunkards. 

" How do you think we can help the temperance cause 
among the Indians? " we asked our brownie. " Let Indian 
boys and girls learn temperance in schools, and make all 
white men who come to our country leave their whiskey at 




An American Indian 
Brownie. 



THE TEMPERANCE BROWNIES. 



home." " We think you are quite right about it, and 
everywhere in our land we will talk about it when we get 
back. Good -by." 

Now we have crossed the ocean, for as the flying machine 
goes through the air it does not 
matter whether it moves over 
water or land. And here we are 
in China. None of the Chinese 
brownies were killed in the war 
with Japan, neither did they run 
away. Brownies do not grow old 
like folks. 

This little Chinese brownie was 
living two thousand years before 
the Christian era, and he will tell 
you that even then people in his 
country were getting drunk. But 
that now something even worse 
than drunkenness has come upon 
them, and that is the use of 
opium. "You are Americans ?" says this little brownie. 
" Well," he says, " I am glad that in the treaty between the 
United States and China there is an agreement that no 
one in the United States will be allowed to send opium to 
China, and that no Chinaman shall be permitted to bring 
opium into the United States. We are glad too because 
opium is a poison that destroys everything that is good in 
people who take it." Brownie sighed and said : " How we 
wish that England had made such a treaty with us. It is 
England that made us buy her opium when we did not 
want it, and our greatest statesmen would have fought 
against it if our nation had been as strong as England." 

Note. — Brownie Temperance Sewing Cards. Brownies in outline, to be 
stitched in bright colors by the children in kindergarten fashion, have been 
prepared by the author, and may be ordered of the National Temperance 
Society and Publication House, 58 Reade Street, New York City. 12 cents per 
set of 12 different Brownies, or 10 sets for $1.00. 




A Chinese Brownie. 



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CHAPTER II. 



INDIA, JAPAN, AND AUSTRALIA. 

Now we proceed on our journey and land in India, and 
meet a friendly brownie riding on an elephant. 

" Please, Mr. Brownie, stop your elephant long enough 
to tell us how temperance is get- 
ting on in India." " You want 
the latest news, do you ? Well, I 
am not sure whether it will make 
you angry or make you cry. A 
company of men were sent over 
to India from England to investi- 
gate whether or not opium was 
doing the harm that missionaries 
say it is. They were supposed to 
be wise men, but we brownies 
call them ' fools/ for they went 
home and reported that opium 
was not doing any harm in India, 
An East Indian Brownie. when in fact it is killing thou- 
sands of people every year, and making tens, yes, hundreds 
of thousands perfectly worthless. They reported also that 
ail of the people in India were willing to have opium sent 
to India and raised there, when in fact there are Christian 
people of India who are doing everything they can to pre- 
vent the English government from allowing opium to be 
sent to India. The commission also reported that it was 
not worth while to try to stop the opium business in India, 
that it could not be done ! " " Do the brownies of India ever 
take opium ? " we asked. " I should think not/' he replied 
indignantly ; " it would puzzle anybody to find us to sell us 
opium, and you may be very sure we would not go where 
it is and help ourselves." 




THE TEMPERANCE BROWNIES. 7 

It was a long speech, and the elephant was tossing his 
trunk and swaying his body as if he wanted to go, so we 
exchanged salaams with our brownie friend, and climbed 
into our flying machine to take a long journey. 

Bless us, this is pleasant, allying in the air. What is 
that over yonder? It is surely Fuji Yama, the sacred 
mountain of Japan. What a store they do set by it in 
Japan ! They embroider it, they paint it, they work it in 
bronze. 

Well, we have alighted in Tokiyo, and the Mikado (king) 

of the Japanese 
brownies will 
give us an audi- 
ence. He has 
come over two 
hundred miles 
in hisjznrikisha 
to meet us. 
u You have a 
brave people/' 

A Japanese Brownie. we Say, " and We 

think Japan may be one of the greatest nations of the world 
if her people will let strong drink alone. Are there many 
drunkards among the Japanese ? " " Yes. Our people 
make liquor out of rice," he said, " and it is called sakz. 
It makes men mad drunk, and that is worse than ' dead 
drunk.' " " Rice is much used for food in Japan, is it not ? " 
we asked. "Yes," replied the Mikado of the brownies, 
"but the people use about one-seventh of all the rice they 
raise for making sakz." " Is nothing being done for tem- 
perance in Japan ? " we asked. " Oh, yes," he replied, " the 
best people we have in our country are working for tem- 
perance, and of course the missionaries do all they can to 
bring about total abstinence and prohibition." "Thank 
you, and good-day to your Royal Highness," we said, and 
pretty soon we were high ourselves, high up in the air, and 




8 



A TOUR AROUND THE WORLD AMONG 



flying away to Australia. We go on the wings of the wind, 
you know, and one, two, three, four hundred miles more or 
less seem like nothing at all. What manner of brownie 
will meet us this time, we wonder? We had hardly had 
the thought before we had landed in Sydney. Verily, we 
thought we were in London town, the buildings were so 
strong and massive. It seemed all the more like London 
when we saw the dapper little brownie, who introduced 
himself as " Algernon Charles Lovelace." We didn't say 
it, but we did wonder if that one eye- 
glass of his wouldn't give him rather a 
one-sided view of things ; but we soon 
found that he had taken an all-around 
view of the temperance movement, for 
he told us that saloons are closed on 
Sundays in every part of Australia ex- 
cept one, in South Australia, and there 
the saloons are closed a part of the 
time on Sunday. "We do not allow 
liquor to be sold to children under six- 
teen years of age," said he. " Well, there 
must be some wide-awake temperance 
workers in Australia. ,, "Yes, indeed," 
said he; "for nearly sixty years they 
have been working at it; before that 
time drunkenness was terrible in Australia ; both the state 
and the Church were founded on liquor. It is even said 
that one of the first churches built in Australia was paid 
for in rum ! '■ " Will you not try to get prohibition ? " we 
asked. " Of course we brownies would like that," said he, 
"but our people seem to be more in favor of local option ; 
that is, to let the people vote whether or not they will 
have liquor sold in the towns and cities where they live." 
" Thank you, Mr. Algernon Charles Lovelace, time is flying, 
and so must we be. Good-day." 




An Australian Brownie. 



THE TEMPERANCE BROWNIES. 9 

CHAPTER III. 
FRANCE, GERMANY, AND HOLLAND. 

Now we have come to France. As you might expect, 
the French brownies are very polite in all their ways, so we 
will have to look to our manners. We must prefix every 
question we have to ask with S'z'l vous plait (if you please). 
It would be well for us if we would do this in each and 
every land. 

" If you please, Monsieur Brownie, will you tell us how 
temperance stands in sunny France ? We 
have been told that French people drink 
a great deal of wine, but that there is 
really little drunkenness in your land." 

*" It is true that our people do drink a 
good deal of wine. It costs very little ; 
but it is not true that there is no drunk- 
enness in France, although the people do 
not get drunk on wine. The wine creates 
a taste for something stronger ; absinthe 
is the liquor that makes the mischief. It 
is a bitter kind of brandy — tastes worse 
than the bitterest kind of medicine — but, 
strange to say, people who drink it learn 
to like it. It is sold in the cafes (restau- 
rants). Absinthe is the worst enemy France has. It 
will do more than any foreign foe can to kill off her strong 
men. Brownies know better than to taste the vile stuff." 
" Thank you exceedingly, Monsieur Brownie. Good-morn- 
ing. 

We mount our flying machine again, and in the twink- 
ling of an eye we find ourselves in Germany. Truly, we 
are in good fortune, for here is the drum-major of the 




A French Brownie. 



IO A TOUR AROUND THE WORLD AMONG 

brownies. The roll of his drum is so loud he does not 
hear us speak at first. 

"If you please, Herr Brownie, will you tell us how tem- 
perance stands in your land ? We know that your people 
drink a great deal of beer, but we have sometimes heard 
beer called a temperance drink ! " 
"Well," he said, "we brownies know 
that beer does not help temperance in 
Germany. You will know this is so 
when I tell you that in Germany there 
is a public house (saloon) to every 175 
people. We have been told by other 
brownies it is not so in any other land. 
Then, women and children drink beer 
and wine. Some young men in the 
universities drink as many as thirty 
mugs of beer in an evening, and large 
mugs they are, too. On Sundays peo- 
ple go to church in the morning 
and to the beer-gardens in the after- 
noon. The streets are full of drunken people." " What a 
dreadful picture you have given us, Herr Brownie ! Do 
tell us, are there no people jn Germany working for tem- 
perance ? " " Oh, yes, but they do not go about it in the 
right way. You see they do not work for total abstinence 
and prohibition, but only for moderation and restriction. 
We brownies are all teetotalers, and we know that there is 
no such thing as making people temperate by letting them 
have fewer saloons." "Surely you are 'exceeding wise/ 
Herr Brownie. Good-day ! " 

When next we alighted from our flying machine we were 
in Holland. You may be sure we felt quite startled when 
we saw a brownie with a little brown jug. It puzzled us, 
because we had heard that the brownies in every land are 
temperance folk. " Pray what have you in your brown 
jug, Herr Brownie ? " " Nothing at all ; it is empty, but I 




A German Brownie. 



THE TEMPERANCE BROWNIES. II 

am going to buy some water." "Water?" we asked, in 
surprise ; " is there not water, water everywhere in Hol- 
land ? " " Yes, but there is none to drink ; it is sea-water, 
and so our people have to send barges off to bring it to us, 
and then we must buy it." " Where do they get it ? " we 
asked. " From rivers that run through the centre of Hol- 
^^^^^^^^^ land, far away from the seacoast." " Do 
Hftgj .. all of the people in Holland carry water 

.R^SK^I .in their little brown jugs? " we asked. "J 
■L>v/^w| I fear not," he replied. " Is there anybody 
working for temperance in your coun- 
try?" we asked. " Oh, yes," he said. 
" About forty years ago a good clergyman 
translated from the English some good 
temperance books, and these, together 
with the Bible, have been put into the cell 
of every prisoner in Holland." "What a 
wise thing to do," we said, "because in 
America we are told that nine-tenths of 
all the crime committed is through drink. 
Are there any temperance societies in 
your country ? " we asked. " Yes, there are," he said. " We 
call such societies Veresniging tot Afschaffing van sterken 
Drank.' 1 We tried to speak it after him, and it almost 
split our throats. We would gladly have had a drink of 
water from his little brown jug, if it had been full. 



A Holland BrownU. 



12 A TOUR AROUND THE WORLD AMONG 
CHAPTER IV. 

ENGLAND; IRELAND, AND SCOTLAND. 

What a wonder it is that men have been so long a time 
inventing the flying machine. It makes the railroad train 
seem like an old slow coach. We were in 
Holland only an hour ago. and here we are 
in London town, where the Prince of the 
English brownies lives. The first sight we 
got of him, we snapped our kodak at him, 
and had his picture, three feathers, crown, 
ermine, and all. 

" Is it true that English people are fond 
of their ale ? " we asked. " Well, they do 
have a great many ale-houses," he answered, 
"but there are many people in England, 
particularly among the great and noble, 
who would like to do away with the ale- 
houses and all kinds of public houses." 

"Listen while I sing you a bit of a 
song," he said. " Canon Wilberforce wrote 

An English Brownie . t 

" * Twinkle, twinkle, bit of blue, 
Witness that I will be true ; 
Symbol of a cause so high 
That angels watch it from the sky.' " 

As he sung, he turned back his ermine cape and pointed 
to his temperance bow of blue ribbon. 

He told us that the friends of temperance had grown 
tired of waiting for Parliament to make temperance laws, 
and had taken the matter into their own hands, so far as 
their own property was concerned, so that in their districts 




THE TEMPERANCE BROWNIES. 1 3 

in London and Liverpool, and other large cities, there was 
prohibition — no liquor could be bought. 

While we were talking with him a wagon passed by us 
that had on it the strange device, " Brewers to the Queen. " 
" What can that mean ? " we asked in breathless surprise. 
" It means nothing at all," he said, " only that some brewer 
wants to sell his beer and ale, and has put a lie on his 
wagon." 

We crossed the Irish Channel and landed in Dublin. 
The speaker of the brownies with his blackthorn stick was 
on hand at once, for he knew that we 
were coming. Before we had time to ask 
him any questions he began to tell us 
about Father Mathew, who nearly sixty 
years ago began a great crusade against 
the drinking houses in Ireland. " Would 
you believe it," he said, " in four years' 
time he almost made Ireland a temper- 
ance country, and there were hardly any 
prisoners in our jails." "Then tell us, 
pray, why Ireland is so cursed with drink 
to-day ? " we asked. " It is because there 
was no prohibitory law," he answered. 
"In a few years after Father Mathew's 
crusade the drink business was going on 
harder than ever." " Is nothing done for temperance now 
in your country ? " " Oh, yes, there are great temperance 
leagues hard at work, and there are temperance newspa- 
pers. Ireland is not so bad as it would be without these. 
We hope it will grow more and more to be a temperance 
land, then people will no longer hear about famine and 
oppression." 

We arrived in the Land o' Cakes for an early breakfast. 
In every land we had found that the brownies dressed just 
like other folks, and we were not surprised to find the chief 
of the brownie clan coming to meet us in his tartan and 




An Irish Brownie. 



14 A TOUR AROUND THE WORLD AMONG 



Scotch bonnet. We only wondered that he did not bring 
his bagpipes along to play Scot's " Wha hae wi' Wallace 
Bled." 

" We have heard a good deal about Old Scotch Whiskey. 
Is there any of it in Scotland now ? " we asked. " Plenty, 
plenty, more than is good for them that 
drink it," he answered. " One thing 
will surprise you very much," said he, 
" if you will stay over one Sabbath in our 
country. You will find that all of the 
saloons are closed on that day, and they 
have been closed on Sabbaths for more 
than thirty years. Travelers (those 
w r ho have come more than three miles) 
can, however, get something to drink 
by ringing the bell or knocking at the 
door. It is supposed that they are so 
weak and faint that they must have 
something to strengthen them ! " 
" Foolish creatures," we said, " not to 
know that to drink liquor will take away their strength in- 
stead of making them strong." 

" Are there any temperance societies in your country ? " 
we asked. " Yes, there are many, and they are all work- 
ing together to get Parliament to pass a temperance law 
that will let each town or district have a prohibitory law. 
Scotch brownies will not have anything to do with Scotch 
whiskey." "They are exceeding wise," we replied. And 
with a wave of our hands we mounted our flying machine. 




A Scotch Brownie. 



THE TEMPERANCE BROWNIES. 



15 



CHAPTER V. 

MADAGASCAR AND AFRICA. 

We can travel over water just as well as over land in our 
flying machine. Suppose we visit next the Island of Mad- 




Our Flying Ship. 



agascar. Swifter far than the swift ships we sped across 
the Indian Ocean ; as free as the air itself were we. 
Ploughing their way gainst time and tide were they, with 
billows in front of them, billows at right of them, billows 
at left of them, billows behind them. The fleecy clouds 
were the only billows on our path, and we passed by them 
swifter than eagles. 

When next we alighted we were in Tananarivo, the capital 
of Madagascar, and there came out to meet us a brownie 



16 A TOUR AROUND THE WORLD AMONG 

who told us that he was one of a company who made their 
home in the palace of the good Queen Ranavalona. " We 
like to be there," said he, " because we never see the queen 
drinking wine herself nor giving any to her friends. She 
might easily have her palace full of the merry knights of 
wine," said he, "for of all the liquor made in Madagascar 
one-tenth is given to the queen." " What does she do 
with it if she does not drink it, nor give it to others 
to drink?" we asked. "She just pours it all on the 
ground," he replied. " Are all of your people as temperate 
as your queen ? " we asked. " A part are," he replied. " The 
Hovas have prohibitory law. They do not allow liquor to 
be made or sold in the part of the island where they live/' 
" What kind of liquor is made in other 
parts of your island ? " " I will tell you 
what kind of liquor used to be made in 
Madagascar, and then I will tell you 
what kind is made now. Before the 
missionaries came here our people used 
to make liquor out of the sweet sap of 
trees, but when our king became a 
Christian he made a law that all such 
trees should be cut down, so that no 
more liquor could be made. After that 
there was no more drunkenness in our 
island until England and France made 
our king allow some Englishmen and 
Frenchmen to make liquor from the 
sugar-cane which they were growing in 
A Madagascar Brownie Madagascar. In one short year our 
streets were filled with drunkards and our prisons with 
criminals." "Could your king do nothing about it ? " we 
asked. " He did all he could ; he bought all that he could, 
and then destroyed it by having the casks that contained 
it knocked to pieces." "Tell us the name of that brave 
king." " King Radama I.," he answered. These strong 




THE TEMPERANCE BROWNIES. 



17 



nations that thus bring evil upon weaker nations will surely 
have their punishment from the God of Nations. 

Now that we are so near to Africa, let us take our way 
to the Congo Free State, and see what is going on there in 
the line of temperance. 

We had only to telegraph to a brownie through the air — 
no need of telegraph lines or even telephone wires — that 
in a few hours we would be there. 
When we met the little fellow and re- 
ceived his salutation, we hardly knew 
whether to address him as " Mon- 
sieur " or " Herr " or " Senor " or " Mr." 
His hat made him look like a French- 
man ; his pipe like a German ; his coat 
and pants like a Yankee ; his shoes 
like a Dutchman ; his guitar like a 
Spaniard ; his eye-glass like an Eng- 
lishman. One of our party whispered 
that he was a " Conglomerate," but an- 
other more politely said, " He is inter- 
national." " Pray, do not take offense, 
good friend Brownie, but will you ex- 
plain to us your strange appearance ? '* 
A Brownie in Africa « Certainly," he said, with the utmost 
politeness. " We brownies have only been dressing in this 
curious fashion for the last year or two. We do so because 
all of the countries represented in our costume have agreed 
together to restrict the liquor trade in the Congo Free 
State, not to allow liquor to be sent or to be sold where it 
is not already done. And when it is done, laws are made 
that will tax the business so heavily that many men will 
cease to import or to make liquor." "That is good," we 
said ; " with that explanation we think your costume very 
fine and most becoming. But tell us, please, why not only 
these nations but others as well are so interested not to 
have liquor sold in the Congo Free State?" "Because 




18 A TOUR AROUND THE WORLD AMONG 

they all were engaged once in sending liquor here, and 
they saw that sooner or later it would kill off the nations 
and ruin their trade ; but aside from this, it has shown to 
Christian people in these nations that a great wrong was 
being done to a weaker nation." 

How sorry we felt as Americans that our country had 
ever sent liquor to the Congo Free State. In one year 
alone we sent 737,650 gallons of wine there ! Our faces 
were red with shame as we remembered this. I wonder if 
the brownie saw that we were in somewhat of a hurry to 
get away from his country. 



THE TEMPERANCE BROWNIES. 



*9 



CHAPTER VI. 

EGYPT AND SPAIN. 

" Before we leave Africa let us take a fly to Egypt." 
No sooner said than done. We remembered having seen 
at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876 a sign 
like this in the exhibit of Egypt : 



Greetings from the oldest nation of the earth 
to the newest. 



Our flying machine was halted at the top of one of the 
great pyramids, for we wanted to see it, and thought it 

would be easier to climb 
down than to climb both up 
and dowrn. At the base of 
the pyramid, waiting for us, 
was the Egyptian brownie. 
We pressed the button of 
our kodak, and here we pre- 
sent him to you. " Muham- 
med Hassaun." "You are not 
old like your country," we 
said. He laughed rather 
slowly as he replied : "No 
one can ever guess the age of 
the brownie folk ; we were 
never young, and we never 
shall grow old." "Were you 
here in the beginning of 
Egypt, longer ago than any- 

An Egyptian Brownie. . , ,. . ■, 

8yp body now living knows any- 

thing about?" "Yes," he said. "Surely there were no 




20 A TOUR AROUND THE WORLD AMONG 

drunkards then ? " " Yes, there were, for Egypt, long cen- 
turies before Jesus came into this world, was into the 
business of brewing, or wine-making. If you will look at 
her grand monuments, you will find pictures of the wine- 
press, and of intoxicated people. It has been going on 
ever since, but worse than the wine is the hasheesh, made 
from hemp, to be smoked. It drives our people crazy. 
To be crazy is even worse than to be drunken, because one 
gets over being drunk, but crazy lasts." "Is anything 
being done for temperance in Egypt? "we asked. "Not 
very much," replied Muhammed. " Instead, I may say the 
drink habit is increasing ; the American missionaries are 
about the only persons in Egypt who are doing anything 
in Egypt for temperance." " Water is very scarce here," 
we observed. " Yes, our people must buy it in the streets, 
paying even for a small cup full. Sometimes a rich man 
will buy a skin of water, and call the people to drink free, 
so that they will pray for him." We thought of our own 
dear land, and sang as we seated ourselves in our flying 

ship, 

" I love thy rocks and rills, 
Thy woods and templed hills." 

The shores of Spain beckon to us from across the sea. 
Afar off we can see the gold and crimson of her banners. 
In the full tide of moonlight we settled down into the Al- 
hambra. The air was vibrant with the sound of the guitar 
and the mandolin. As it were, treading on a moonbeam, 
a brownie friend came forth to meet us, and gave his name 
as Senor Pablo Yglecias. 

You see, word had been passed around among the 
brownie folk in every part of the world that we were com- 
ing, and so they were on the lookout for us. We said, 
" Senior Yglecias, we do not expect to find much drunken- 
ness in Spain, for we have heard that you have a temperate 
people, but will you explain to us how this came about?" 
" I am very much pleased to do so," he replied; "our no- 



THE TEMPERANCE BROWNIES. 



21 




bles do not have the vice of intemperance, and so a bora- 
cho (drunkard) is a vulgar, low-bred fellow ; so it would 
seem that our people have too much 
pride to be drunkards." " Well, that is 
the best species of pride we ever heard 
of, but surely there is some liquor made 
| and drank in Spain?" "Yes, some- 
thing like 500,000,000 gallons of vile 
stuff called * wine.' It is made of grape 
must, Berlin alcohol, and some other 
I chemicals. The sherry wine of Jerez 
is famous, but it is made-up stuff too." 
" Perhaps you can tell us something of 
your neighbor Portugal," we said. 
" Haven't you heard of the American 
banquets they have in Portugal ? " We 
had to confess that even though we 
were Americans we never had heard of 
them. "Well," he said, "American 
banquets were drinking parties, where the men did not get 
drunk enough to make beasts of themselves." "America 
then was not very much honored in the custom," we could 
but remark. " The people in Portugal are not as drunken 
as they used to be, because in the army drunken soldiers 
are punished most severely, even with death if it is in the 
time of war. Another help to temperance is that the sale 
of liquor to boys and girls is not allowed." Oh, yes, we 
see they do not mean to grow drunkards in Portugal. We 
thought of parts of our own land where they do grow them, 
and gave a deep sigh, so deep that Senor Pablo Yglecias 
cast an inquiring glance at us. But we felt like keeping 
our shame to ourselves, and were glad to tell him that in 
some parts of our land there is a law that liquor cannot be 
sold within two hundred feet of a school-house. 

Our flying ship was straining at its moorings, warn- 
ing us that we had better get aboard or we might be left. 



A Spanish Bro 



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CHAPTER VII. 



TURKEY AND GREECE. 



" Shall we fly East or West or North or South ? Tur- 
key is a most interesting country just now; let us go 
there. " And so we set wing for Turkey, bound for the 
wonderful old city of Constantinople. We had no desire 
to see the Sultan, but we had heard that the brownies held 
court on the roof of the Sublime Porte (the great gate), 
which opens into the Sultan's palace. We thought it best 
to alight from our flying machine in an olive grove, a mile 
or more from the palace. We knew that the sleepy-eyed 
Turkish soldiers would easily mistake our craft for a huge 
condor. 

But the brownies knew better. They did not venture to 
come down in a company to meet us, but sent as their rep- 
resentative Abdul Ibrahim, who greeted us with a very low 

salaam. To which we responded 
in American fashion : 

" How do you do ? glad to see 
you," and then we each shook 
hands with him. 

" We understand," said I, " that 
Turkish people are very fond of 
cold water, that they prefer it to 
whiskey ; is this true ? " 

The little fellow laughed all 
over. " Turks no drink whiskey, 
but rakee, and plenty of it." 

" But," said one of our party, 
" we have heard it said that Mo- 
hammedans are forbidden by 
their Bible (the Koran) to drink 
liquor." 




A Turkish Brownie. 



THE TEMPERANCE BROWNIES. 23 

"They must not drink wine," he said; "but the Koran 
says nothing about rakee!' 

"Do the brownies drink rakee? " we asked. 

"Never, never, never ! " they answered in chorus from 
the roof. 

The Turkish guard stirred himself a little, but he evi- 
dently thought he had heard the twittering of night-birds. 

" I suppose there is no wine made in Turkey then ? " 

Again Abdul Ibrahim laughed, and pointed his wee 
finger toward the palace and said : 

" The ' Sick Old Man ' (as the Sultan is sometimes called) 
in there is glad to get all the revenue he can from it, and 
his government even tries to increase its manufacture and 
sale, so that in one year alone $1,370,600 worth of wine was 
sold, and the Sultan had a fine revenue from it." 

" It cannot be true then," said I, " as I have heard, that 
a boy in Constantinople is safer from the drink curse 
than if he lived in one of the great cities of the United 
States ? " 

Abdul Ibrahim said " he did not think so, for on every 
hand were places where not only wine and rakee could be 
had, but opium as well." 

We could not help feeling that the American boy is 
safer than the Turkish boy, because he is taught in school 
all about the danger to his body of taking alcoholic drinks. 

We were about to ask questions concerning the Ar- 
menians, the Christian people of Turkey, but Abdul Ibra- 
him suddenly disappeared, and not one brownie was to be 
seen on the roof of the " Sublime Porte." Evidently Abdul 
Ham id, the Sultan, was awake and aware that he was being 
told on, so we too beat a hasty retreat, for we did not care 
to leave our heads in Turkey. 

" Greece is only next door," suggested our courier, and 
almost " as quick as a cat can wink her eye " (she doesn't 
do it very fast, you know !) we were there, under the shades 
of the Parthenon, Greece's greatest ancient temple. It is 



24 A TOUR AROUND THE WORLD AMONG 



all in ruins now, and we looked in vain for the magnificent 
statues that used to adorn it. While we were wondering 
which direction to take, a little Greek gentleman made his 
appearance, and announced himself as 
" President of the Brownie Republic in 
Greece." We looked surprised, and he 
said : 

" King George is not our ruler ; by 
and by the Greeks will learn how much 
better it is to have one of their own 
number for a president than to have a 
foreigner for a king." 

"Are the Greeks any wiser about 
temperance now than they used to be 
hundreds of years ago?" we asked, for 
we had read in history that the ancient 
Greeks were great wine-drunkards. 

"You forget," said President 
Brownie Themistocles, "that there 
were laws in ancient Greece against 
drunkards, and that in Sparta boys were made to look on 
the silly actions of drunken slaves, so that they would be- 
come disgusted with wine drinking." 

We could not help replying : " We fear, then, that the 
people who live in Greece to-day are not as wise as those 
ancient Greeks." 

"You are quite right," said the President; "nothing is 
being done in Greece now for temperance, and more than 
three thousand acres of our land are covered with grapes 
for wine." 

" How do the brownies feel about this ? " we ask. 
"Come," said he, "and I will lead you to a place where 
you may meet them all, and hear them talk " ; and so he 
led us to Mars Hill, that place of meeting for so many cen- 
turies, where men have met together to hear of some new 
thing. 




A Greek Brownie. 



THE TEMPERANCE BROWNIES. 25 

Never was there such a company on Mars Hill as that 
day, never a company of people so much in earnest that 
only the truth should be spoken. The brownies declared 
themselves quite ready to help in a temperance crusade in 
Greece. 

" But how can we do it ? " they asked ; " for you know 
we are so small as not to be counted men and women, nor 
even children." 

It was suggested that they might play the part of the 
foxes, "the little foxes that spoil the vines " on which the 
grapes are growing for wine. 

" If we only could talk as men and women," said they, 
" we would stir up the Greeks of to-day to be as noble and 
as temperate as were the Greeks of the olden time, for so 
might they again be a great nation." 



26 A TOUR AROUND THE WORLD AMONG 



CHAPTER VIII. 



ITALY AND PERSIA. 



"Let us set wing for Italy next, for," said one of our 
number, " we have heard that in wine-growing countries 
there is little or no drunkenness." And as Italy is next to 
France the greatest wine-growing country in the world, we 
might expect to find there a temperate people if that is 
true ! One of our party had spent a winter in Rome, and 
told us that there wine and milk are the same price, from 
six to eight cents a quart. We determined to make a land- 
ing on the Campagna, which is just outside of Rome. We 
felt sure of meeting the brownies 
there, for there they could live un- 
disturbed by men. It may not much 
longer be left to the brownies, for 
men are learning that by planting 
eucalyptus trees they can drain the 
marshes, and so make it a safe place 
to live in. The eucalyptus trees 
draw up the water of the marshes 
with their trunks; indeed, they are 
as good as pumps. This draining of 
the Campagna has so far been ac- 
complished that we were not at all 
afraid to make a visit there with the 
brownies. 

In some countries the brownies are 
An Italian Brownie. a ki n giy race> but in Italy they belong 

to the peasantry, so we were not at all surprised to see a 
brownie step up to meet us as soon as we had landed, look- 
ing quite like an animated rag-bag ; and yet his rags were 
tied on in such a jaunty fashion as to make him quite a 




THE TEMPERANCE BROWNIES. 27 

t 
model for a painter. He doffed his hat with a feather in 
it, and gave us his name as Stefano Sebastiana. 

" We have been sailing over the vineyards of Italy, and 
they seem to us to be covering almost the whole land," we 
said. 

"Yes," he replied ; " Italians make from 600,000,000 to 
800,000,000 gallons of wine a year." 

" How much of this wine do the brownies drink ? " we 
asked. 

"Not one drop," he replied; "we belong to the B. W. 
T. S." 

" What is that ? " we asked. 

He pointed his finger at us in a comical fashion, and 
said : " You are temperance folks, and do not know what 
the ' B.' W. T. $.' is ! Why, the ' Brownie World Temper- 
ance Society/ of course." 

" Is there any other temperance society in Italy ? " we 
asked. 

"Yes, there is one," he said, "but you would hardly call 
it a temperance society, because it does not pledge its 
members to be teetotalers, only to drink moderately." 

" Is there much drunkenness in Italy ? " we asked. 

u Oh, yes," he said, " and sometimes there are such fights 
in a drink-shop that the chief of police will shut it up for 
a whole year." 

u It is a pity he couldn't shut up such places forever," we 
said. " Is the wine-drinking of the people the reason why 
one will always see a line of beggars at a railroad station, 
holding out their hands for the travelers in the cars to toss 
them something ? " 

u Yes," answered Stefano, " the Italians would not be so 
poor if they would let wine-making and wine-drinking 
alone, and raise grain instead for bread. Addzo," said 
Stefano, as he saw that we were preparing to take flight. 

" Let us visit next the land of the Wise Men," said one 
of the party. " What wise men ? " " Why, those who fol- 



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A TOUR AROUND THE WORLD AMONG 



lowed the star that led them to Bethlehem where Christ 
was born.'' 

Persia lay to the east across the Mediterranean Sea. If 
we had taken swan's wings instead of eagle's wings, we 
might have had a sail on the sea ; but eagle's wings are 
swifter and stronger than swan's wings, and so we were not 
sorry that we had to cross the sea over it instead of in it. 

" What do you know about the drinking of liquor in 
Persia? " we asked of each other. 

One recalled the story of Belshazzar's feast, where he set 
wine before a thousand of his lords, in the golden and sil- 
ver cups which Nebuchadnezzar had 
taken from the temple of Solomon. 
Another spoke of the great feast 
which Ahasuerus gave, lasting one 
hundred and eighty days, at which 
there was " royal wine in abundance," 
so that the king and his guests were 
drunk. Another of our party told us 
the story of how wine-drinking in 
Persia began : A very ancient king, 
Jamsheed by name, tried to keep 
grapes by putting them into a great 
jar. The grapes rotted and fermented. 
The king then had the juice bottled 
up and marked "poison." There was 
a lady in his palace who drank some 
of the poison, because she wanted to 
kill herself. Instead of killing her, it 
only made her drunk ; while she was drunk she felt so 
happy that she afterward took it all, little by little ; and so 
in Persia to-day wine is called zahar-i-khosh, which means 
"the delightful poison." 

We decided to alight just outside of the greatest city of 
Persia, Tabriz. Hassan u Deen, for so he gave his name, 
was not long in finding that we had come to pay the 
brownies of Persia a visit. 




A Persian Brownie. 



THE TEMPERANCE BROWNIES. 29 

" Do you belong to the B. W. T. S. ? " we asked. 

" Certainly ; all of the brownies in Persia do," he replied. 

" We asked him if he had ever heard the story of the 
zahar-i-khosh ? " 

"Oh, yes," he replied ; " we were living then, and some of 
us used to look at that drunken woman, aud think what a 
foolish and wicked woman she was." 

" Do the people in Persia to-day drink that delightful 
poison ? " we asked (for we could not speak the Persian 
word). 

" Not all of them," he said ; " there are tens of thousands 
of people in Persia who have never tasted any liquor, and 
who would rather die than take it, because they say it 
would make them unfit for paradise, and displease Allah 
(God). The Koran declares that in wine ' is great sin,' and 
that it is an abomination of Satan's work." 

In surprise we asked, " Who, then, does drink liquor in 
Persia ? " 

" Hassan replied, " Mostly the Jews and the soldiers, and 
some Christians." 

" Do not the missionaries try to keep Christians from 
drinking ? " 

u Oh, yes," said Hassan ; " they nearly all try to get the 
people to sign the temperance pledge." 

It was time for us to go, so we gave the very best salaams 
we could to Brownie Hassan and mounted our eagles' 
wings. 



30 A TOUR AROUND THE WORLD AMONG 



CHAPTER IX. 



CEYLON AND NEW HEBRIDES ISLANDS. 



Before we journey toward the north again, let us touch 
where spring breezes 

" Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle." 

Somebody in our party suggested that our flying machine 
might get caught on that line called the Equator, as it 

passes through the middle of 
Ceylon. Well, we did not get 
caught, but landed safely at Bat- 
ticotta. Surely the Garden of 
Eden could not have been 
more beautiful than Ceylon is 
with its date palms, tree ferns, 
cocoanut and tamarind trees, and 
beautiful orchids and tea gar- 
dens. To be sure, the deadly 
cobra, that most dangerous of all 
serpents, is there. So there was 
a serpent in the Garden of Eden. 
With a polite salaam, a veritable 
Sinhalese brownie stood before 
us. He told us that his name was 
Kassappu Thamotharurampilly \ 
We asked him to allow us to call 
him " Ceylon, " by the name of his country. He smiled in 
the gentlest manner and nodded " yes." We asked him if 
many people in Ceylon were killed by the cobras. " Oh, 
yes," he replied, "but strong drink is a more deadly foe 
than the cobra. Our people did not use to know anything 
about strong drink ; their religion, when they were Hin- 
dus, Mohammedans, and Buddhists, forbade them the use 




A Ceylon Brownie. 

Pronounce it if you can. 



THE TEMPERANCE BROWNIES. 3 1 

of strong drink, but England, which we understood to be a 
Christian nation, sent strong drink to us, that she might 
make herself rich through the sale of it. It did not mat- 
ter to England how our people were degraded and ruined 
in body, mind, and soul by the liquor and by the opium 
which she is still sending to us, and forcing us to buy by 
setting up shops all along our roads and streets to tempt 
our poor people." 

" Surely, it cannot be so bad as that now," we said, " after 
so much has been said and written about England's wrong- 
doing in this matter ? " 

" Yes, and the condition of things is not likely to im- 
prove, for England will be deceived by the committee who 
reported that opium is a good thing for India. 

"You are Americans, I believe," continued Kassappu 
Thamotharurampilly. " The lectures of your great tem- 
perance orator, John B. Gough, have been translated into 
our language by the missionaries, and they have greatly 
helped our people to know what a virtue temperance is, so 
that Christian Sinhalese are teetotalers." 

" How glad we are that the brownies in every land are 
teetotalers," we said. 

"Yes," he replied, "they are little upon the earth, but 
they are exceeding wise." 

" Shall we fly east or west, or north or south ? " 

" There is no use to go further south, for you'll find only 
fish and sea monsters, and it is quite safe to say they drink 
nothing stronger than water," remarked the member of 
our party who had charge of the geography of our trip. 

"I am interested in the New Hebrides Islands; let us go 
there," said one of the ladies. " They lie to the southeast 
of us in the South Pacific Ocean," said our geographer. 
" Are there brownies there ? " we asked Kassappu. " There 
are brownies in every land under the sun, and they are all 
temperance folk," he replied. " Well, you may tell the 
brownies in the New Hebrides that we are coming," said 



32 A TOUR AROUND THE WORLD AMONG 



our captain. No one knows how one nation of brownies 
communicate with another, but they never failed to do it 
anywhere. Our eagle's wings were soon set for the New 
Hebrides. Those brave, strong eagle's wings, in every 
clime, in any land, they seemed to be in their element, fit- 
ting emblem of the fact that out of every tribe and nation 
there are those who come to make their home in America, 
"the land of the free and the home of the brave." 

On, on we flew until at length there came to view, spread 
out like a great map below us, a group of islands, twenty 
or more, some of them as much as sixty or seventy miles 
long, and others much smaller. On one of them there was a 
great volcano belching out fire, but for the most part the 
islands look green and fertile. We landed on Espiritu 
Santo, the largest of the islands. What a tribe of brownies 

were there to greet us, for you 
must know that folks of our 
complexion were a great curi- 
osity in those parts. One of 
their number stepped forward 
to greet us. " Erramongo " he 
gave as his name. We snapped 
our kodak, and here is the pic- 
ture we had of him. 

"You are so far away from 
the nations that make and sell 
rum," said we, "that we expect 
to hear the islanders are a very 
temperate people." 

"Ah, not so," said he in a 
sad tone. " They make kava 
and drink it, at least the men 
do. The women are not allowed to drink it because they 
have to do all of the work." 

We had never heard of kava, and we asked how it was 
made. 




A New Hebrides Brownie. 



THE TEMPERANCE BROWNIES. 33 

" From a kind of pepper plant. The boys and girls are 
made to chew it, and as they chew it they spit it into pans. 
Then men and women pour water over it and strain it, and 
set it away to ferment. When it is fermented the men 
drink it, and then they lie down and sleep as if they were 
dead. You should see them when they are drinking it," 
said he. " They spit out the settlings and say ' Kumesan ' — 
1 O Devil, here is your share.' " 

" Do all of the men in the New Hebrides drink this 
stuff ? " we asked. 

" No/' replied Erramongo, " not after they become Chris- 
tians." 

" Has there never been a kava taker among the brown- 
ies?" 

"Not one," said he, "for then we should be more filthy 
than the little hogs that run about our island. Perhaps 
you do not know about our hogs. We have been told that 
they are about the size of your rabbits." 

•* Please let your brothers in the Sandwich Islands know 
that we are coming to visit them," we said, as we got into 
our ship and prepared for another flight. 



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CHAPTER X. 



SANDWICH ISLANDS, GREENLAND, AND ICELAND. 



" We can fly east or west to reach the Sandwich Islands," 
said our geographer. He looked up at our flag, and no- 
ticed that it was floating toward the west, showing like a 
vane the direction of the wind. 

" It is the trade wind," said he ; " if we go toward the 
west it will carry us right along, but if we go toward the 
east it will hinder us." 

We had a feeling as if we were going home when our 
faces were turned toward the Sandwich Islands, for there 
are so many Americans there, and we confidently expect 
that some day there will be a star on our flag for the state 
of the Sandwich Islands ! Long before we reached there 

we saw smoke ascending from 
Mauna-Loa as from a furnace ; 
and indeed, that is just what 
it is, being a volcano, where 
fires are nearly always aglow. 
We landed in the suburbs of 
Honolulu, the greatest city of 
the islands. Ready to greet 
us was a very distinguished 
looking personage, thdugh he 
was hardly more than two 
feet high. His beautiful cape 
of tiny golden feathers showed 
us that he was a person of 
rank, and we were not at all 

A Sandwich Islands Brownie. surprised when he gave as his 

name "Prince Liholiho.'' We did not need to tell him 
what our errand was, for Erramongo had acquainted him 
with it, and he had heard also from Kassappu. He said : 




THE TEMPERANCE BROWNIES. 35 

" You know of Captain Cook ? He it was who brought 
the white man's drink to our islands ; from that time until 
the missionaries came there was terrible drunkenness here ; 
even the king was a drunkard. But the missionaries 
taught our people temperance, and laws were made that it 
should not be manufactured or sold. It was better here 
than elsewhere until one day a French ship came in, and 
the captain made our king sign an agreement to let French 
people bring their liquors to our islands to sell. Then 
there was drunkenness everywhere again." 

" Is nothing being done for temperance now ? " 

" Yes," he said ; " the missionaries and the native Chris- 
tians are teaching temperance ; and perhaps you have 
heard of Mrs. Mary Clement Leavitt ; she has been here, 
and now the women of our country have a temperance 
society, and we believe this will yet be a temperate nation." 

" We hope so," we said ; " and we 
just wish we had the power to re- 
quire all of your people to sign a 
temperance pledge before they be- 
come American citizens." 

4< Is that the way you do it in the 
United States ? " 

" Well, no, not exactly," we had to 
confess. 

" Good-by, Prince Liholiho." 

We had been so long in tropical 
regions it was proposed that we 
should now go where we could cool 
off. How would Iceland and Green- 
land do ? 

" Do ? Just the thing," we all 

Shouted in Chorus. A Greenland Brownie. 

We suited the action to the word by pulling our furs out 
of the little cuddies which lined our flying ship all 
around the inside. We might easily have been taken for 




36 A TOUR AROUND THE WORLD AMONG 

a company of Esquimaux, or perhaps for the exploring 
party who are on their way to the North Pole. As night 
came on a marvelous light filled the sky and "shined the 
little stars away." It flashed and flamed across the whole 
heavens. It was the Aurora Borealis. 

Our good friend the geographer seemed to know just 
where we should land ; and so when we alighted on terra 
firma it was within sight of the settlement of Sukkertoppen. 
When our little brownie friend appeared, we saw that he 
was smaller than any we had yet seen — not half the length 
of my arm. He introduced himself to us as Eric Hernhut. 
His name showed that he was not an Esquimau, but a Dane. 

" Greenland is such a cold country, we suppose there 
must be a great deal of liquor used," we said. 

" You are mistaken," he said. " Greenlanders know that 
if they want to keep warm they must let liquor alone, and 
besides," said he, "they could not get it if they would, be- 
cause Greenland is a prohibition country. There is only 
one day in the year when anybody can have any liquor to 
drink." 

" When is that ? " we asked in surprise. 

" On the king's birthday every man who wishes it may 
go to the government storehouse and get a glass of 
schnapps to drink the king's health." 

We laughed ; we could not help it. Very bad health we 
should think the king might have with so many people 
taking poison in his name. 

" Do the brownies drink schnapps on the king's birth- 
day ? " 

" Of course we do not. We drink to his health with 
good pure water ; for we belong to the Brownies' World's 
Temperance Society." 

" Do you ever visit the brownies in Iceland ? " 

"Yes," he answered; "Iceland is only 160 miles away, 
and that is no distance at all to a brownie." 

" Neither is it a long distance for folks in a flying ma- 



THE TEMPERANCE BROWNIES. 37 

chine," we replied; and as soon as we had said our fare- 
well we were off, and Eric Hernhut looked to us like only 
a speck as we saw him speeding away on his reindeer. 

Almost as quick as thought — well, as quick as two or 
three thoughts — we had reached Iceland at Reikiavik, the 
capital. We looked around expecting to find ice-palaces, 
but not one met our eye ; but in- 
stead plenty of churches and com- 
fortable houses. 

l * My name is Eyvind Thorgils- 
son," said the quaint lfttle brownie | 
who greeted us. " You will not find 
a saloon in all Iceland," he said. 

" Wonderful ! " we all exclaimed. 
" How can that be ? " we asked. 

" We have a Christian people I 
here," he answered. 

He saw our look of surprise and I 
smiled as he said : " I think you 
hardly expected to find civilized 
people here." We had to confess j 
that it was so. 

" Why," he continued, " Iceland 
had her millennial celebration about two years before you 
had your centennial. Compare 1,000 years with 100 ! " 

" Do you really mean to say that nobody in Iceland takes 
strong drink? " we asked. 

"No," he answered; "I cannot say that, because some 
do have liquor in their homes ; but it is a fact that there 
are no saloons and no jails in Iceland." 

" We are glad to learn you have such a happy people, 
and we wish Americans had as good morals as Icelanders. 
Good -by." 




An Iceland Brownie. 



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CHAPTER XI. 



SWITZERLAND AND AUSTRIA. 



We were quite loth to leave Nature's refrigerator these 
hot summer days, and so it was proposed that we set wing 
for Switzerland. We decided that our landing-place 
should be the famous Chamouni Valley, above which rises 
the snow-covered peak of Mount Blanc, like a table set for 
the Sacrament. 

We were so lost in looking upward that we hardly heard 
the tiny voice of our little brownie friend bidding us wel- 
come to Switzerland. He looked 
like a mere speck in that great val- 
ley. " Emil Stauffacher greets you, 
and all the brownies welcome you." 
We looked about us, and hundreds, 
yes thousands, of elf-like faces were 
peering at us from behind the rocks, 
which were on every side. We no- 
ticed Emil's soldier-like garb, and 
said, "We hoped Swiss brownies 
did not fight." He drew himself 
proudly up and said : " Our people 
have always been brave — so brave 
that other nations have been glad 
to have them fight for them/' " We 
have not come to talk about war, 
but temperance, dear friend,'' we 
said. " Do people in your country 
drink wine and beer, and do you have drunkards in Switz- 
erland ! " "Alas, yes," he answered; "there are nearly 
twenty-two thousand places in Switzerland where drink is 
sold, so you must know there are plenty of drunkards." 
" Is nothing being done for temperance in Switzerland ? " 




A Swiss Brownie. 



THE TEMPERANCE BROWNIES. 39 

"Oh, yes," answered Emil; "twenty years ago a teetotal 
temperance society was organized called ' Societe de la 
Croix Bleu ' (the Society of the Blue Cross)/' We thought 
of the red cross on the Swiss flag, and asked whether or 
not the government was doing anything for temperance. 
" Oh, yes," replied Emil; "they think they are, by taking 
charge of the business themselves/' "Ah, yes; then the 
liquor trade is conducted by the Society de la Croix Roth 
(red cross) ? " " The brownies are the only folks in Switzer- 
land who believe in prohibition," said Emil. "How wise 
you are ! " we said, as we waved him good-by. 

" Austria is the next door among nations ; let us make a 
flying visit there," said the geographer of our party. It 
was thought a wise thing for us to do, because Austria is 
considered one of the greatest beer and wine-producing 
countries in the world. Indeed, 
we almost feared that the brown- 
ies themselves might take a drop 
now and then, as they would sure- 
ly be told the lie that such light 
liquors are temperance drinks, 
and never make drunkards ! We 
will go and see for ourselves. 
True as steel, a temperance 
brownie came forth to meet us. 
We looked for his temperance 
badge, and there it was pinned on 
his breast, with the letters we had 
learned to know so well — B. W. 
T. S. (Brownies' World Temper- 
ance Society). No beer and wine 
for him. He introduced himself 

as Franz Windischgrdtz. What An Austrian Brownie. 

a name! "Does everybody in Austria drink beer and 
wine ? " we asked. " I am proud to say," he answered, 
" that some of the officers in our army were the first to 




40 A TOUR AROUND THE WORLD AMONG 

give up wine. They used to have wine at their messes, but 
now they will not have it any more." Are there any ether 
friends of temperance ? " we asked. " Yes," he answered ; 
"some of the richest and highest class people are begin- 
ning to be more temperate." " Is there really much drunk- 
enness in Austria?" we asked. "Yes, yes," he answered; 
" in the very parts where the most beer and wine are made 
there are the most drunkards, and the fights and brawls 
are terrible." " We need not ask you what you think of 
beer and wine as temperance drinks ? " " Brownies' heads 
are very small," said he, "but they contain enough sense 
to know that is a trade-lie." As we glanced around, and 
in every direction, and saw the vine-clad hills, we were re- 
minded of "the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious 
beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat 
valleys of them that are overcome with wine." " The 
crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden 
under foot." " You must do what you can for Austria, you 
temperance brownies," we said, as we said good-by to 
Franz Windischgratz. 

WINE IS A MOCKER. 
Yes, and beer is like unto it. 



THE TEMPERANCE BROWNIES. 41 

CHAPTER XII. 

PALESTINE AND COREA. 

There are two or three spots we must visit before we 
leave " the Old World," insisted one of our company. It 
seemed to the rest of us that we had been about every- 
where, and we were beginning to have longing thoughts of 
home. "No, there is Palestine, 'the land of corn and 
wine,' and there is Corea, * the hermit nation ' ; they have 
certainly never had any visitors drop down upon them from 
the sky. They can have no barriers skyward, so I think 
we shall be able to effect an en- 
trance. We must visit both of 
these nations before we turn our 
faces to the coast," insisted our 
fellow-traveler. " Shall we skim 
the sea over, or shall we go over- 
land ? '' asked our pilot. It was 
decided that we should fly over 
the Mediterranean Sea. The sea- 
scape below us looked for all the 
world like a blue sky underneath, 
instead of above, and the white 
sail-ships seemed to be great 
birds winging their way. Jerusa- 
lem was our destination, and we 
could but wonder what sort of 
brownies we should find there, as 
the people in Palestine are from 

. .. , A Palestine Brownie. 

almost every tribe and nation in 

the world. We did not know what to expect, but we were 
surprised to have a brownie greet us dressed as a shepherd. 
When we told him so, he replied by asking us if we had 
never read that shepherds were the oldest inhabitants, and 




42 A TOUR AROUND THE WORLD AMONG 

we remembered that nobody can tell how old brownies are. 
" If you stay out on the hills watching the sheep, we fear 
you cannot tell us much about the temperance question/' 
we said. " Oh, yes," he replied ; " we keep watch of the 
vineyards, too, and once in a while we skip through those 
two big breweries over in Jaffa, just to see how much beer 
they are making." "Do they make all of the beer drank 
in Palestine?" "No," he answered, "it is brought in 
large quantities from Austria and Germany." " How about 
the wine ; is that made in Palestine ? " " About seventy 
bottles out of one hundred," he answered, u and arak is 
made, too, out of grapes and figs." " Surely Palestine can- 
not be called a land of temperance, as we have heard/' 
•' No, indeed," replied our shepherd brownie ; " the Jews 
not only drink, but they are the liquor-sellers of the land. 
The Mohammedans, on the whole, are the most temperate 
people, and yet they do drink some wine and beer." " Is 
there no one doing anything for temperance in Palestine?" 
we asked. " Yes," he replied, " the missionaries are doing 
what they can ; but what are they among so many drunk- 
ards, especially when our land is in the hands of the Turk ? 
The Turkish Government collects taxes from anybody and 
everybody who sells liquor. Of course, the Turks are glad 
to see the trade increase." " May you live long enough to 
see Palestine a temperance land," we said in parting. " I 
hope so," he replied, " and I may have a different story to 
tell when you come again." 

If we had to travel by steamer or by train, Corea would 
indeed be a long journey from Palestine ; but by way of 
the sky, or ■* as the crow flies," we count it almost as noth- 
ing. We thought it best not to make our descent until 
night, for we knew that in tlie day-time our flying machine 
would attract the curious gaze, if not the warlike acts, of 
such a peculiar people as the Coreans. So along in the 
dead of night we settled down in the suburbs of Wiju. We 
had heard that nearly all of the families of that town made 



THE TEMPERANCE BROWNIES. 



43 



their living in liquor-selling, and we wanted to see with 
our eyes if it were so. We found it so indeed. 

" Here is one of the * hermits,' surely," we whispered to 
each other as we caught sight of a most curious little 
brownie coming out to meet us. Although it was night, 
he wore his large lace-like hat. 
His hat and fan and cane 
seemed to be as much a part of 
him as his very hands and eyes. 
He did not tip his hat — he sim- 
ply could not — but he bowed 
politely and said: " Kao-li 
Piengyang." That we took to 
be his name, and bowed politely 
in return, saying : " We are an 
American temperance party." 
u Oh, yes," he replied ; " I have 
been expecting to see you ever 
since I heard you were in Japan 
and China." "You do not care 
much to see strangers in Corea, 
do you ? " we asked. We were 
surprised when he replied, " We 
have seen a good many Ameri- 
cans in Corea during the last fourteen years." "Temper- 
ance parties ? " " No," he replied ; " they brought their 
drink along with them, and it seemed to be stronger than 
anything we have in Corea." "What do people in Corea 
make their liquor out of ? " " Rice and millet and barley." 
" Is there much drunkenness in Corea ? " we asked. " Yes, 
yes," he replied, sadly; "our people look old even while 
they are young, and it is considered honorable to get 
drunk. Our great men may get drunk at dinner, and roll 
down by the table, and nobody says ' Shame,' but rather, 
* How lucky he is to be rich enough to get drunk.' " " Is 
no one doing anything for temperance in Corea?" we 




A Corean Brownie. 



44 A TOUR AROUND THE WORLD AMONG 

asked. " The missionaries are doing what they can. They 
try to have our people grow tea to drink, instead of wine 
and other liquors." " And what does the government do ? " 
<k Nothing/' said Kao-li, " excepting when the crop of grain 
is not large the people are not allowed to use much of it 
for liquor." " A small crop, then, must be a blessing to 
Corea," we ventured to say. "Yes, from the temperance 
point of view it is." Then he looked as though he was 
about to ask a question about the United States Govern- 
ment and temperance, and as there were some things we 
did not care about telling him, we made haste to be off. 



THE TEMPERANCE BROWNIES. 



45 



CHAPTER XIII. 



SOUTH AMERICA AND MEXICO. 



South America was our next destination. We could 
reach it by going either to the east or west. How strange 
that two opposite directions would at last bring us to the 
same spot. That is because our world is round, you see. 
To go west we should have to fly over the hot country of 
India and over the Great Desert in Africa. Of course we 
could rise high enough to 
escape the heat, but we had 
always kept as near the earth 
as possible, so as not to have 
quite so far to fall, if fall we 
must. To go toward the east 
we should have entirely a sea 
trip, so we decided to go that 
way. We were interested to 
see Venezuela first, because 
of the much-talked-over 
boundary. We had not been 
able to send any word by the 
hermit brownie of Corea, and 
we found ourselves in quite a 
quandary about how we 
should reach the brownies. 
"Sing a temperance song," 
some one suggested. 

Before our song was ended 
we saw little faces peering at us from behind the rocks and 
trees, and one little fellow became the spokesmen for the 
rest and came out to greet us— "Jose Martinez." "Do 
you have drunkards in Venezuela? " was our first question. 
" Why, yes ; they have them everywhere, don't they ? " he 




A Venezuela Brownie. 



46 A TOUR AROUND THE WORLD AMONG 

asked. And then he added : " We do not have such a lot 
of them as some other countries do, because it is so hot 
here people are afraid to drink much liquor." " How is it 
in other parts of South America where it is not so hot?" 
" Well, over in Brazil there are about fifty breweries, and 
they make wine there, too; lots of drunkards there." 
" What about the other parts of South America ? " " Well, 
Argentine Republic is the worst of all The people there 
make wine, and beer, and rum ; but they can't make all 
they want, they want so much, so they send to France for 
more. Would you believe it/' he continued, "there are 
some men who pay a license fee of $1,250 a year, and yet 
they keep right on with their business of selling liquor." 
"Yes," we said; "we never did think high license would 
stop the liquor business, for it does not cost much to mix 
up drinks ; a few cents' worth of stuff will make five gal- 
Ions of brandy or five gallons of wine. You can't make the 
license high enough to make liquor men feel it." Jose 
said they had no temperance laws in South America, 
"Some day^ve hope there will be a federation of American 
republics, and that a prohibitory law will be one of the 
articles." 

" Mexico is South America's nearest neighbor. The 
great gulf between them is the Gulf of Mexico, but it is 
easily covered with a flying machine. " Meet us in the Al- 
meda in the quiet hour just after midnight" was the mes- 
sage we had sent the Mexican brownies by our friend Jose. 
You must know that the Almeda is the principal prome- 
nade in the city of Mexico, and at any other hour than in 
the dead of night brownies would hardly have dared to be 
seen there, and surely people in a flying machine would 
not want to land in broad daylight, with thousands of up- 
turned faces watching them. When we had landed, on all 
sides we saw brownies peering at us through the branches 
of the great beech trees that line the sides of the Almeda, 
and some were sporting in the waters of the eleven foun- 



THE TEMPERANCE BROWNIES. 



47 



tains. As brownie came forward to greet us he fairly- 
shone, so bright was the gold lace all down the sides of his 
pantaloons. We saw, too, that he had on great spurs that 
rattled as he walked. " My name is Miguel de Trejade," 
he said. " Mexico has not 
been so honored before 
as to receive a visit from 
the friends of temper- 
ance." "We are sorry 
to have heard that there 
is much drunkenness in 
Mexico," we said ; " is it 
true ? " " Yes, yes," he re- 
plied ; " our people have 
so much to make liquor 
out of." " What do they 
make it of ? " " Have you 
not heard about the 
maguey plant ?" he asked. 
When we shook our 
heads he said, " You call 
it in your country 'the 
century plant,' I have 
heard." " Yes, but it is a 
very rare plant with us," we replied. "It grows every- 
where in Mexico, and out of it our people make thread, 
cloth, bagging, rope, paper, brooms, brushes, and combs." 
" What a useful plant," we said. " Yes, yes," sadly an- 
swered Miguel; "but our people make it a fountain of sin 
and sorrow, for when they see the blossom coming they 
cut it out, making a kind of basin, and into this flows the 
sap. As much as two quarts a day can be gathered from 
each plant for two or three months. The sap thus gath- 
ered is fermented and made into a kind of liquor called 
pulque. It makes people very drunk. In the city of Mex- 
ico alone as much as 300,000 pints of pulque are drank 




A Mexican Brownie. 



48 A TOUR AROUND THE WORLD AMONG 

every day. On the railroads ■ pulque trains ' are run daily. 
And that is not all," continued Miguel ; " a very strong 
kind of liquor is made from the leaves of the maguey." 
" Are there no laws against the making of these drinks ? " 
we asked. " No," he answered ; " each person who sells 
pulque must have a license, that is all." " Is no one doing 
anything for temperance in Mexico?" we asked. "Yes, 
the missionaries preach temperance and sometimes our 
newspapers have something to say about it." " What do 
the brownies do about the maguey ? " " They use it only 
for good purposes," he replied. We were glad that the 
maguey is only a rare plant in the United States. 



THE TEMPERANCE BROWNIES. 49 



CHAPTER XIV. 

CANADA AND RETURN TO THE UNITED STATES, LANDING 
IN NEW YORK CITY. 

Mexico is our next-door neighbor on the south and 
Canada is our next-door neighbor on the north. Having 
paid our respects to our neighbor on the south, before we 
go home we must make a call on our northern neighbor, 
and inquire into the state of her body, temperance. 

We had heard what a noble class of people live in To- 
ronto, so we thought we would make that our stopping- 
place. As it was in the 
winter, we were not at all 
surprised to have our 
brownie friend come forth 
to meet us clad in his to- 
boggan suit and snow- 
shoes. He directed us to 
follow him, and he would 
guide us where we could 
see the whole- brownie 
tribe. They seemed to 
be spilling promiscuously 
down the great slide, and 
their merry laugh sound- 
ed like the jingling of 
sleighbells. They invited 
us to a slide, but we de- 
clined. " Robert MacAr- 
thur is my name," said 
our brownie guide, " and I will be pleased to answer any 
questions about temperance in Canada." " Tell us what 
1 plebiscites ' are," we said. " We have heard that you have 
them up here in Canada." " I suppose you are thinking of 




A Canadian Brownie. 



50 A TOUR AROUND THE WORLD AMONG 

the temperance plebiscites," he replied. " It means that 
people are given a chance to vote whether or not they want 
the government to close the saloons in Canada and have 
prohibition. All but one of the provinces in Canada have 
voted, and they all want prohibition, " he replied, and 
swung his toque. " Is Toronto a temperance city ? " we 
asked. " You will think so when I tell you that our Mayor 
and seven Aldermen are prohibitionists," he answered. 
"That is not quite what we are used to in the United 
States," we said in an undertone, as we glanced at each 
other. " You could hardly say such good things of the 



Washington Arch. 

people as far west as Manitoba, could you ? " There was a 
twinkle in his eye as he answered : " Nearly all the mem- 
bers of their Legislature are prohibitionists." " Whew ! " 
we exclaimed ; " we never saw it in this wise. How glad 
we are to have such good neighbors ! Good-day ! " 

At last our faces were turned homeward, and we con- 
cluded to make a landing in New York just beside the 



THE TEMPERANCE BROWNIES. 



51 



Washington Arch. It was a favorite spot with us, because 
of the grand motto engraved upon it, the words of our 
greatest hero, George Washington : 



Let us raise a standard to which 
the wise and the honest may repair. 
The event is in the hand of God. 



How could a nation live up to that motto without tem- 
perance law ? 

Our Uncle Sam himself was at the arch to meet us. 
"Glad to welcome you home, my children," said he. " You 
found the eagle's wings strong and true, didn't you ? " 
"Have you some good tem- 
perance news for us, Uncle 
Sam ? " " Yes, first rate," he 
said, as he wiped his forehead 
with his bandana pocket- 
handkerchief. " My boys and 
girls are all taught temper- 
ance in the day-school." " All, 
all, Uncle Sam ? " " All ex- 
cept in Virginia and Georgia 
and Arkansas. I said 'all' 
because I expect they'll soon 
he in the ring." "How did 
that come about ? " we asked. 
" Why, the Legislatures were 
worked for it," he said. "And 
in the Sunday-schools four 
temperance lessons a year 
are taught there." " Why, 
Uncle Sam, we are just grow- 
ing temperance statesmen, aren't we?" "Yes, indeedy; 
we are sure to have prohibition when my boys and girls 
grow up." " How many prohibition States have we now, 




Uncle Sam. 



52 TOUR AMONG TEMPERANCE BROWNIES. 

Uncle Sam ? " " Six in the North, and lots of prohibition 
counties in the South. The temperance sentiment is 
growing in every direction ; churches won't take rumsell- 
ers in for members ; railroads won't employ men who 
drink ; great dinners are now given without a drop of wine 
by people connected with the government ; our people are 
proud to wear temperance bows and temperance buttons ; 
some of the finest orators in our land speak for temper- 
ance." We were rejoiced to hear these signs of the times, 
and we said, " Uncle Sam, we have the best country on 
earth, and we have come back to try to make it still better 
by working to pledge its twenty millions of children to 
total abstinence and prohibition. 

" Tremble, King Alcohol, 
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Its object is to make the temperance work and education a part of the religioui 
culture and training of the Sabbath-school and family circle, that the children 
may be early taught to shun the intoxicating cup and walk in the path of truth, 
soberness, and righteousness. 

TERMS, IN ADVANCE, INCLUDING POSTAGE. 

Monthly Edition.— Single copy, one year, 25 cents. One hundred copies to 
one address, $12. For any number of copies over four, to one address, at the 
rate of 12 cents per year. 

Semi-Monthly Edition.— Single copy, twice a month, one year, 40 cents. One 
hundred copies, twice a month, to one address, $24. For any number of copies 
over four, to one address, at the rate of 24 cents per year. 

THE WATER-LILY. 

An illustrated four-page paper for the very little folks, half the size of This 
Youth's Temperance Banner, full of stories and helpful reading for Sunday- 
schools, Juvenile Temperance Organizations, and for children in the home circle. 
Each number is filled with choice pictures and short stories, both helpful and en- 
tertaining, contributed by the best writers. Single subscriptions, 10 cents a year, 
For four or more copies, sent to one address, only 6 cents .a year eaohj fifty 
copies for $3, or one hundred copies for $6. Address 

NATIONAL TEMPERANCE SOCIETI AND PUBLICATION 
HOUSE, 58 Reade Street, New York. 



NEW TEMPERANCE PUBLICATIONS. 

The National Temperance Society and Publication House publishes 
the following new books: 

FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL LIBRARIES. 

HER READY-MADE FAMILY. By Mrs. J. McNair Wright. 12mo. $1.25. 

SUMMERWILD By Annette L. Noble. 12mo. $1.25. 

BARCLAY'S DAUGHTER. By Jean Kate Ludlum. 12nio. $1.00. 

A MODERN PRODIGAL. By J. McNair Wright. 12mo. Paper, 50 cents: 

cloth, $1.25. 
MARJORIE RANDOLPH. By Ernest Gilmore. 12mo. $1.25. 
THE CAPTAIN'S BARGAIN. By J. McNair Wright. $1.25. 
THE DIVIDING OF THE WAYS. By Mrs. E. J. Richmond. 12mo. 75 cents. 
A POT OF DAISIES. By Ernest Gilmore. 12mo. 60 cents. 

MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATIONS. 

THE TEMPERANCE FOURTH READER. By Mrs. J. McNair Wright. 12mo, 

76 pages. Board cover, 20 cents; paper cover, 10 cents. 

This is the fourth in Mrs. Wright's popular series of Readers, and it teaches 
.a Reading Lessons the great truths of a true temperance education. The lessons 
are rather more advanced than in the other three, but giving interesting stories 
and facts on this question, teaching truths which every child should know. In 
its popular form it should have a very wide circulation. It contains 15 engravings 
and 27 lessons, and is a very cheap pamphlet. 

A NOBLE LIFE. A Memorial pamphlet of Mr. John N. Stearns, late Correspond- 
ing Secretary of the National Temperance Society. It gives a Sketch of his 
Life, Tributes received from friends and prominent workers all over the world, 
and a number of Mr. Stearns 1 short, crisp utterances. 10 cents. 

HOW TO FIGHT THE DRINK; or, The Saloon Must Go. An Evening's 
Entertainment. By Miss L. Penney. 25 cents. 

A bright, helpful programme, consisting of recitations, part exercises for 
younger children, a dialogue, and several choice songs for solos and choruses, 
suitable for use in all Temperance Societies, Schools, Christian Endeavor Socie- 
ties, and all Young People's Organizations. 

NEW ISSUES OF ILLUMINATED CARDS. The National Temperance Society 
have added three new series of especially pretty and cheap cards to their list 
of Illuminated Cards. They are a new design for the ever-popular Little 
Bouquet Series, four cards with mottoes, very pretty, and only 25 cents per 
100, assorted. 
THE SCRIPTURE SERIES. Four designs. Telegraph lines with birds on them 

and landscape, Scripture verses. Assorted, per 100, only 50 cents. 
THE TEMPERANCE CATS AND DOGS. Two cats and two dogs, all teetotalers, 
with mottoes. Very pretty embossed cards, large heads. Assorted, per 100, 
only 50 cents. 
NEW FOUNTAIN MEDAL AND PIN. This is a new medal, made of aluminum, 
suspended to a bar pin by rich tricolored ribbon. A handsome decoration, 
sure to please the children. Per dozen, $1.50. Single one, 15 cents. 
THE NATIONAL TEMPERANCE ALMANAC FOR 1806. Filled with choice 
Stories, handsome Illustrations. Puzzles, Facts, Figures, etc. It has some- 
thing for every member of the family. 72 pages. 10 cents. 

2 100 TEMPERANCE PUBLICATIONS. Books for Sunday-School Libraries; 
Books, Pamphlets, Tracts, and Leaflets upon every phase of the Temperance 
Question, for all lines of Temperan- ork. Catalogues free. Address, 

The National Temperance Society and Publication House, 

58 READE STREET, NEW YORK. 

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